Before you read the text

Step 3.
Let's do some listening exercises before you read the story. The first exercise will teach you to grasp the information from the flow of Russian words.
Read through the following English statements below: some of them are true, some - false. True or false: this is what you should find out while listening. Teach yourself to ignore words and phrases that are not relevant to your task.
Now listen to the story and click on the statements that are TRUE.

Step 4.
Now you will hear selected sentences from the text. Click on one of the sentences below to match it with one that you hear.
Note that you don't have to understand all words in these sentences. With this exercise you will learn an important skill: how to correlate spoken words and phrases with their graphic images. Ok, let's see what you hear.

Step 4.
Now you will hear selected sentences from the text. Click on one of the sentences below to match it with one that you hear.
Note that you don't have to understand all words in these sentences. With this exercise you will learn an important skill: how to correlate spoken words and phrases with their graphic images. Ok, let's see what you hear.

Step 6. Now read the story above out loud. If you have difficulties pronouncing some words or phrases, listen to them and repeat aloud. Your reading should be fluent.

Step 7.
Listen to the whole story while you read along. At this point you should be able to understand what you hear very well.
If listening and reading along is easy enough for you, try listening without looking at the written text. Understand almost everything?
Good! I have more for you to learn. Click on the pictures to reveal hidden phrases. Have fun!

Finally, let's use the sentence structures and phrases that you have learned to write a similar story based on your own background information.
Tell your story to someone who speaks Russian or understands it a bit.